Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2007

Ellis, Peter G, Paul A Torcellini, and Drury B Crawley."Simulation of Energy Management Systems in EnergyPlus."Proc. Building Simulation 2007 (2007).

2006

Witte, Michael J, Robert H Henninger, and Drury B Crawley."Experience Testing EnergyPlus With the IEA HVAC Bestest E300-E545 Series and IEA HVAC Bestest Fuel-Fired Furnace Series."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Griffith, Brent T, and Drury B Crawley."Methodology for Analyzing the Technical Potential for Energy Performance in the U.S. Commercial Buildings Sector With Detailed Energy Modeling."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Torcellini, Paul A, Shanti Pless, Michael Deru, and Drury B Crawley."Zero Energy Buildings: A Critical Look at the Definition."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Crawley, Drury B, Jon W Hand, Michael Kummert, and Brent T Griffith."Contrasting the Capabilities of Building Energy Performance Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Hand, Jon W, Drury B Crawley, Michael Donn, and Linda K Lawrie."Improving the Data Available to Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

2004

Crawley, Drury B, Linda K Lawrie, Curtis O Pedersen, Frederick C Winkelmann, Michael J Witte, Richard K Strand, Richard J Liesen, Walter F Buhl, Yu Joe Huang, Robert H Henninger, Jason Glazer, Daniel E Fisher, Don B Shirley, Brent T Griffith, Peter G Ellis, and Lixing Gu."EnergyPlus: An Update."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Witte, Michael J, Robert H Henninger, and Drury B Crawley."Experience Testing EnergyPlus With the ASHRAE 1052-RP Building Fabric Analytical Tests."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

1997

Bazjanac, Vladimir, and Drury B Crawley."The Implementation of Industry Foundation Classes in Simulation Tools for the Building Industry."Building '97 Simulation Conference (1997).

1991

Eto, Joseph H, Hashem Akbari, Robert G Pratt, Steven D Braithwait, Edward L Vine, and Drury B Crawley."End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection."State of the Art of Energy Efficiency: Future Directions (1991) 16.